Research projects

This project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, will quantify current and future health costs and benefits of urban environments, helping to make health impacts a priority in urban  development planning.

What the project will do:

• Conduct a literature survey to quantify the health costs and benefits of different aspects of urban environments.
• Use this economic information to gain a better understanding of how to create healthy urban environments.
• The researchers will collaborate with urban development agencies – such as city authorities – to explore barriers and opportunities for such work.
• A panel of experts in urban development, policy and impact will support the research.

View full details on the Wellcome Trust project

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this was a major interdisciplinary seminar series with an overall aim of considering how public health can contribute to urban planning and the delivery of healthy sustainable communities. This series offers a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the obstacles to reuniting planning and health and identify workable and economically viable solutions that help deliver health outcomes, wellbeing and equity in cities and neighbourhoods.

Find out more about the ESRC Seminar Series

Public Health England has commissioned a literature review on the impacts of the built environment on health as well as a series of practical diagrams that illustrate the linkages, and strength of evidence, between spatial planning and health.

For more information, please contact Dr Paul Pilkington (Paul.Pilkington@uwe.ac.uk).